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Sunday, March 31, 2013
WebShape - Demonstration Portal
Vision Objects - Demonstration Portal:
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Amazon.com: John K. Hollenbeck's review of Logitech Wireless Speaker Adapter for Blue...
Amazon.com: John K. Hollenbeck's review of Logitech Wireless Speaker Adapter for Blue...:
I took the box apart(Voiding the Warranty) by removing the four screws under the padded feet. Inside is a steel plate on the bottom of the device to make the product feel heavier( No Function). I removed this steel plate that blocks the bluetooth signal, and put the device back together it took less than five minutes. This gained me about 8 feet of range.
Last I flipped the device upside-down on my shelf and could get close to thirty feet away from the receiver before I was out of range.
Last I flipped the device upside-down on my shelf and could get close to thirty feet away from the receiver before I was out of range.
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
CRSNG – Programme d’appui aux ressources thématiques et collaboratives en mathématiques et en statistique
CRSNG – Programme d’appui aux ressources thématiques et collaboratives en mathématiques et en statistique: "Contribution de la ressource à la formation et au perfectionnement de personnel hautement qualifié :
L’importance de la ressource au regard de la formation, y compris les occasions de mentorat et de formation uniques qu’elle offre, et qui sont complémentaires à la formation offerte dans d’autres secteurs et en accroissent la valeur (universités et MITACS);"
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L’importance de la ressource au regard de la formation, y compris les occasions de mentorat et de formation uniques qu’elle offre, et qui sont complémentaires à la formation offerte dans d’autres secteurs et en accroissent la valeur (universités et MITACS);"
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Innofibre -- Archives
Innofibre -- Archives: " M. Mario Parenteau, directeur du Centre spécialisé en pâtes et papiers (CSPP), M. Raymond-Robert Tremblay, directeur du Cégep de Trois-Rivières, M. Simon Barnabé, titulaire de la Chaire de recherche industrielle en environnement et biotechnologie de la Fondation de l’UQTR (CRIEB), ainsi que Mme Lucie Guillemette, vice-rectrice aux études de cycles supérieurs et à la recherche de l’UQTR"
4 raisons pour avoir bâti la Maison des entrepreneurs du Québec (La MEQ) | Entrepreneur Internet
4 raisons pour avoir bâti la Maison des entrepreneurs du Québec (La MEQ) | Entrepreneur Internet: "RAISON D’ÊTRE DE LA MEQ
Nous désirons une économie québécoise forte, dès aujourd’hui et dans 25 ans, et ce, pour la qualité de vie des générations à venir. L’échiquier mondial se transforme, nous devons accroître l’entrepreneuriat et la création de valeurs par l’émergence d’entrepreneur et de projet entrepreneuriaux."
Nous désirons une économie québécoise forte, dès aujourd’hui et dans 25 ans, et ce, pour la qualité de vie des générations à venir. L’échiquier mondial se transforme, nous devons accroître l’entrepreneuriat et la création de valeurs par l’émergence d’entrepreneur et de projet entrepreneuriaux."
Accord de libre-échange Canada-UE - Virage vert obligé pour les entreprises québécoises | Le Devoir
Accord de libre-échange Canada-UE - Virage vert obligé pour les entreprises québécoises | Le Devoir: "L’Europe a déjà bien entamé le virage vert, et les entreprises qui profiteront de l’accord de libre-échange seront celles qui seront conformes à des normes environnementales plus élevées qu’au Canada. Ci-dessus, une éolienne conçue par Alstom pour les champs prévus au large de la France."
Canada Aims to Woo International Students - NYTimes.com
Canada Aims to Woo International Students - NYTimes.com: "TORONTO — The number of college and university students studying internationally has grown more than fourfold since 1975 — and Canada wants a larger share of that market."
Give me your PhDs, your Skilled, your creatives.... | LinkedIn
Give me your PhDs, your Skilled, your creatives.... | LinkedIn: "Yesterday, the Washington Post reported on a new bipartisan Senate bill that would make it easier for highly-skilled foreign workers to come to the US – and for those who earn advanced degrees in STEM from U.S. institutions graduate students to get permanent legal status."
Monday, March 25, 2013
Can Innovation Be Automated? - Slashdot
Can Innovation Be Automated? - Slashdot:
"The Harvard Business Review blog has an invited piece about Innovation Software. Tony McCaffrey at the University of Massachusetts Amherst talks about several pieces of software designed to help engineers augment their innovation process and make them more creative, including one his group has developed called Analogy Finder. The software searches patent databases using natural language processing technology to find analogous solutions in other domains. According to Dr. McCaffrey 'nearly 90% of new solutions are really just adaptations from solutions that already exist — and they're often taken from fields outside the problem solver's expertise.'"
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"The Harvard Business Review blog has an invited piece about Innovation Software. Tony McCaffrey at the University of Massachusetts Amherst talks about several pieces of software designed to help engineers augment their innovation process and make them more creative, including one his group has developed called Analogy Finder. The software searches patent databases using natural language processing technology to find analogous solutions in other domains. According to Dr. McCaffrey 'nearly 90% of new solutions are really just adaptations from solutions that already exist — and they're often taken from fields outside the problem solver's expertise.'"
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I'm surprised that the article doesn't mention TRIZ and ASIT, which are methodologies for innovation.
TRIZ was invented by Genrich Altshuller in 1946, and has been used by russian engineers to counter the american domination on technology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZ [wikipedia.org]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZ [wikipedia.org]
The history behind TRIZ is interesting, since Genrich Altshuller http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genrich_Altshuller [wikipedia.org] was working as a clerk in a patent office (like Einstein), and he noticed that the patents were using some patterns.
He started to categorize all patents to enumerate the used patterns, and he found 39 characteristics with 40 generic solutions.
The idea is that you want to solve a contradiction between 2 characteristics, the contradiction is called a "conflict".
A contradiction matrix of 39*40 cells has been built: http://www.triz40.com/ [triz40.com]
Recently, the TRIZ group succeeded to verify that the matrix was able to map more than 3,000,000 patents.
He started to categorize all patents to enumerate the used patterns, and he found 39 characteristics with 40 generic solutions.
The idea is that you want to solve a contradiction between 2 characteristics, the contradiction is called a "conflict".
A contradiction matrix of 39*40 cells has been built: http://www.triz40.com/ [triz40.com]
Recently, the TRIZ group succeeded to verify that the matrix was able to map more than 3,000,000 patents.
TRIZ was kept as a secret before the Soviet Union exploded, then the russian engineers went to a lot of different countries.
In Israel, the TRIZ group started to simplify the methodology in a smaller set, called SIT.
Very recently, Roni Horowitz simplified SIT into ASIT, which is a set of 6 rules able to map innovation.
In Israel, the TRIZ group started to simplify the methodology in a smaller set, called SIT.
Very recently, Roni Horowitz simplified SIT into ASIT, which is a set of 6 rules able to map innovation.
TRIZ explains that there are 5 levels of invention:
http://www.trizexperts.net/5levels.htm [trizexperts.net]
and it's dedicated to the 4 first levels.
TRIZ is also more adapted to engineers that need a framework to solve problems, but it's not really creative in my opinion.
http://www.trizexperts.net/5levels.htm [trizexperts.net]
and it's dedicated to the 4 first levels.
TRIZ is also more adapted to engineers that need a framework to solve problems, but it's not really creative in my opinion.
Sunday, March 24, 2013
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Friday, March 22, 2013
2013 Canadian Budget
2013 Canadian Budget
http://www.budget.gc.ca/2013/doc/plan/budget2013-eng.pdf
http://www.budget.gc.ca/2013/doc/plan/budget2013-eng.pdf
P.97
Provide $13 million over two years to the Mitacs Globalink Program to
attract highly promising students from around the world to Canadian
universities and to allow Canadian students to take advantage of training
opportunities abroad.
P.204
Economic Action Plan 2013 also proposes increased support for initiatives
to attract highly promising students from around the world to Canadian
universities and to allow Canadian students to take advantage of training
opportunities abroad through the Mitacs Globalink Program
(see Chapter 3.1 under ―International Education Strategy‖).
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Le Chef de la direction de Mitacs est nommé au sein du Conseil des sciences, de la technologie et de l'Innovation du Canada | Mitacs – Inspiring innovation in Canada
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